What's this with all the poetry all of a sudden?
Posted: Tuesday, 23 September 2008 |
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Doggerel Crime on the statute book (but no-one said we had to look). Patience Strong is feeling anxious; McGonigall's looking almost -but-not-quite scansoius. The wise man watches with a smile; They're here today, gone in a while.
Flying Cat from Katie Morag's Creative Writing Class
I think these poets are just great / They should be Poet Laureate / But FC they are not mere doggerel / They are, more rightly, Island Bloggerel.
Jill from EK
Island doggerel (I am not sure I like this word)/bloggerel floats off my back like a duck (no, not a Muscovy, Soaplady. By the way, how are you?! Have you eaten Mindy yet?). My fear is that some island doggereller (I am not including TWS here: he does his for the occasion, and does not have a ready stash) might hit the wrong button, and send the whole hard disk to IBHQ to publish at one go. That's when the guga hits the fan.
mjc from IN, USA
Mindy is getting a new 'nose-lead' mjc ... this hopefully will stop her pulling me into ditches all the time ...! I'm fair to middling at the moment thankyou ... thought I'd finally found 'The One', but turned out not to be so ... hence my haiku ... all part of lifes rich tapestry ... :-)
soaplady from was going to comment b4, but it wouldn;t rhyme
Your 'haiku' were in fact many Soaplady. The ability to cut words down to the bare minimum produces one haiku from many. A haiku is not a many-versed thing. Nor is a liff-time relationship a many-splendoured one.
Flying Cat from Creative Writing Class
Hilary or Bill?
Hyper-Borean from A state of confusion
Now there's a pair of cards if ever there was...
Flying Cat from HillBill eh?
Where are you Fredblog? and Tanith?
mjc from IN, USA
you're perfectly right FC - a haiku is only one verse ... but I was enjoying myself writing it, and having already taken a little artistic license in the content of the haiku verses themselves (ie they should each really refer to the season of the year to be true haiku), I thought I'd just add a little more, and try to also stick partially to the admonition that they also be untitled ... :-) I like to think that mine are Haiku for a european audience, who do tend to expect just that little bit more ...!
soaplady from a comfy bed of compromise
Absolutely Soaplady. I just meant they were multiple haiku rather than one...isn't it sad that Someone here particularly likes the counting bit...5-7-5 or whichever you choose... I do think its awfully big of Calum to allow us a Poetry Discussion Blogfest right here in the Throbbing Heart of islandblogging...
Flying Cat from Cheshire Grin
... :-) I like to think that mine are Haiku for a european audience, who do tend to expect just that little bit more ...! -Soaplady. # That's a good one, Soaplady. That's the spirit. Haiku to your heart's content and as you like it. And if FC so much as quivers, shaft her another haiku. As Sarah Palin said: that will learn him!!
mjc from IN, USA
Oh Soaplady, that nose-lead doesn't sound very nice for Mindy. I'm sure that it's not downright cruel, but it certainly sounds like it!
Barney from Swithiod lead by the nose
You've a heart of stone mjc! Are you perhaps thinking of a bull-ring Barney? There's no way in this liff or another that Soaplady would be cruel to a critter. Not even this cat!
Flying Cat from softsoap
Don't worry Barney ... I could never hurt a single hair on her naughty body ... 'nose-lead' is just *my* words for it ... I suppose its got a proper name ... but it's just an extra little padded strap which happens to go over the top of her muzzle ...! When she pulls, it turns her head a little, causing her attention to be removed from whatevers caught her eye, and back to her mum ... :-)
soaplady from very sorry for hijacking CalumA's blog
HIM, shaft HIM another distended haiku(wonder why I wrote "her" - eh?!).
mjc from IN, USA
Advancing years perhaps mjc?
Flying Cat from a hard stare
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